Charles Sumner Tainter - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

• The Electrical Exhibition in Paris awarded Tainter a gold medal for his co-invention of the photophone the previous year (1881);
• the French Government appointed him an "Officier de L Instruction Publique" for his work in the invention of the Graphaphone (1889);
• the San Francisco Exposition awarded him a gold medal for his Graphophone work (1915);
• the Panama Pacific Exposition also awarded him a gold medal for his work on the Graphophone (1915);
• the American Association for the Advancement of Science made Tainter an Emeritus Life Member of their institute (Pittsburgh, December 1934).